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City hopes to lengthen pedestrian bridge pathway

Could you one day be able to park in Council Bluffs, walk across the Bob Kerrey Pedestrian Bridge and wind up in a CenturyLink Center parking lot without ever leaving the bridge pathway?

That's what city officials say could happen in a few years, as the planning department presses for a new study now under City Council consideration.

Tuesday, the council is set to vote on a concept/design study focusing on extending the bridge pathway across Riverfront Drive, over the adjacent railroad tracks and into Lot D north of of the Century Link Center. The study would go forward under an agreement with the Nebraska Department of Roads.

"We want to see how much it would cost," city engineer Todd Pfitzer said.

It would take until the end of the year to finish the study, Pfitzer said. Grant money would be used to help pay for the study.

The city says construction on the extension project likely could not begin until 2016, depending on funding.

Pfitzer says the city is looking forward to seeing how the bridge could serve more of a transportation function -- providing another option for people to get to major events in NoDo and encouraging more people to visit attractions there.

The city says private funding could eventually help pay for part of the construction.

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